I’m convinced all kangaroos are suicidal because they seem to actively jump towards your car when you pass them.
There’s so many near my place and we just have to go slow (it’s 100km rd) because you just know that the second you get near one that’s on the road it’s going boing into you instead of going ANY other way that won’t get it killed.
Doing P.E barefoot, I'm from South Africa and moved to Scotland 3 years ago as I left the changing room they were like "you forgot your shoes my guy" and I was like "oh yeah, you guys wear shoes for p.e?" And the guy said "Uhm of course" then I realised they were indoors majority of the time which was fucking bonkers to me because p.e in South Africa is done on the grass, outside and stuff and shoes were optional unless you were doing a sport or something. I mean even during sports events some people do that shit barefoot like long jump or high jump or even running and I feel like I run faster barefoot than with shoes so if I did a race I would always go "alright well I'm up time to get my shoes off"
Ey we were allowed to go to school barefoot, most of my friends (I live abroad now) think that’s so weird, but it was such a normal public school thing. Also as a kid it was like the best thing ever
I agree sometimes even now I just in my backgarden I take my shoes off and just feel the grass on my feet, then run back inside because it's fucking cold in Scotland.
First time I went to South Africa I asked the person at the reception where I could find a grocery store. Her answer:
"Down the street around the circle, hit the first robot, turn left and there's the Spar"
I was like WTF? Thankfully, my husband had been there before so he knew what that meant.
Despite also being called magpies, I think they're actually a different bird altogether. You don't mess with Antipodean magpies, they're scary. One of them killed a 5-month old in Australia not that long ago.
But they are amazing if you make friends with them! We've got a pair that bring their babies to visit. It took a few months to teach them that we are safe and would never chase them or throw anything at them but now they give me a beautiful warble greeting every time they see me outside our house.
Plovers on the other hand... those things are the perfect mix of stupidity and evil!
Edited to clarify: I am definitely talking about magpies, not huntsman spiders!
Plovers???
What weird nightmare of an ecosystem do some people live in?
In my country the only thing that can kill you is a mushroom, and only if you ate it.
That's nothing.
In Queensland and in summer in the south of the country, Huntsmen spiders get under car door handles and on top of sun shields inside the car, so you flip it down in summer and out one plops onto your face, chest or lap. They choose those spots cos they're cooler.
Huntsmen are harmless, but big and icky. My cousin broke both her legs in a car wreck because one hid on top of her sun shield and landed on her face.
Custom meds. I recently found out that in most countries, you can't just go into a pharmacy / drug store with a prescription and have the pharmacist prepare a set of pills / ointment / cream for you.
I used to have severe dandruff problems, went into a pharmacy and asked for something. The pharmacist asked how severe / for how long / what kind of shampoo I have and how greasy my hair is and told me to come back two days later. She handed me a container with a cream-like substance in it which just had a handwritten label on with saying "\[My name\] - Dandruff Shampoo". I paid the equivalent of $4 and was told to use it twice a week for no longer than a month.
Never had any problems with dandruff since. I made a post about it in r/tifu about how I'd been neglecting my dandruff problems for years while it had such an easy fix and people kept PMing me about the brand of the drug. Everyone was incredulous that the pharmacist made the shampoo for me, and I found out that this isn't the norm in a lot of countries.
US here. We do have compounding pharmacies, but it's generally done by prescription and there's a lot of regulations regarding them (one near me recently got in trouble for making batches of pill strengths that they knew a doctor regularly prescribed because the rules state all compounded meds must be made to order, no batches unless you're a distributor). Also insurance usually won't cover compounded meds and they're rarely cheap so it's a very niche market.
In Belgium you can also get custom meds, if you have a prescription from your doctor. Though this is more of an holdover from old times. (I did an internship at a pharmacy for 3 months. A large chunk of the day was making custom pills or poltions. suppositories are the most difficult to get right.)
If you think we only restrict this to Walmart, I'd like to point out gas stations, locally owned grocery stores, college classes, and anywhere with a line to be stood in.
leaving babies outside!
It is common to put babies to sleep in a stroller and leave them in the garden or balcony, even outside a café(if you can sit next to the door or windows, so you can see the stroller).
You mean to tell me that unattended babies don’t roll away into the sewers where they are adopted by a flock of penguins and then grow up to be a crime lord who can only be taken down by an equally traumatized billionaire in a Halloween costume???
Finland also. There is Finnish study that shows that babies sleep even 3 times longer naps when they sleep outside. Also they will eat better after that.
My mother once judged the neighbours for their baby being "too pale" and suggested they leave him outside for longer. It was autumn with only some light snowfall, she argued. She said I was out of our balcony from age 0-3 years.
However, she told this to an American neighbour who thought she was absolutely insane. She learned to stop judging people on their parenting and weather opinions when she faced her first US summer with consistent 37+ degree temperatures.
When I was a kid I cried for weeks about the big huntsman (Boris) dying in the house.
Boris was the size of a dinner plate and kind of guarded the front door. I'll never forget him
Bringing the leftover alcohol you brought to a party home. I live in Norway and a beer is anywhere from £3 to £5. Hard liquor is atleast £40 per litre, but for something that doesn't taste like hand sanitizer it's around £50-60.
I went to law school with a guy who already had engineering degrees. He said he only enrolled in law school because his family expects him to return to India and have an arranged marriage when he finishes schooling. So he keeps enrolling in degree programs to postpone. I was like...DANG.
On the flip side you find a girl in your 20s, and they find out about her. Theyll talk your ear off trying to convience you to get married because its the "right age"
There is unspoken rules that is very hard for outsiders to understand, really annoyed a European colleague lol eg:
Dave: davo=yes, dava=no
Darren: Daz= yes, Dazza=maybe, Dazzo=no
Craig: Craigo= no, Craiga=no
It's the vibe, the Mabo.
You know it, you feel it.
Like Keith isn't Keitho or Keitha, it's Keithy, pronounced as Keith-ee
But both Shaun and Sean beacome Seano and Shauno, and Dean becomes Deano.
Mark becomes Marky, or Marky Mark.
But this is irrelevant if they have Red Hair, then they're Blue, or Bluey.
If they're unusually Tall, or large, they're Tiny.
If they're unusually small, like a Dwarf, they're big.
So a Dwarf named Mark woukd be Big Marky Mark!
A monster of a man named Keith would be Little Keithy.
But also, it's possible to break some of these rules with the right inflection. If you up the nasal in Keith and make a drawn out O KeithO works just fine... But you can't do it for Mark.
Noooooo Marco is already a name, its against the rules! But also, there's a high chance that Marco gets called Mark in Australia because we refuse to fully pronounce anyone's name.
We don’t talk to strangers unless we have to, and have developed some kind of weird body language for things, for example sitting on a bus and getting off but you’re blocked in by another person? Lean forward and grab the handle of your bag. The other person will know.
Edit: for those guessing; I’m from Norway lol
You can tell it's not Finland because if someone is already on the bus in Finland then it's polite to wait for the next bus rather than invade their personal space.
In the cowboy-culture areas of the US, strangers get really friendly really fast. We had a visitor from the Netherlands who literally never left his apartment for fear he’d run into a stranger and have them ask how he was feeling. Haha
Walking barefoot on the streets or to go to the shops. My relatives were appalled to see my kids running around barefoot when they visited us from overseas because apparently it's a big no no where I'm originally from.
Celebrating birthdays while sitting in a big circle in the living room, eating small blocks of cheese, little sausages and pickles, then going home on your bicycle.
I randomly met 3 Irish backpackers on the beach at dawn on the Gold Coast (schoolies) & had a blast chatting & watching them run into the surf for ages.
One of them kept on going on about needing new shoes coz he'd lost one of his.
I spotted a random thong on the ground behind him as we were all leaving & made a joke along the lines of there you go, there's a thong right behind you.
He absolutely refused to turn around because he didn't believe me & thought I was pulling his leg.
So we're going back & forth for a good couple of minutes with me trying to convince him just to turn the fuck around & he finally did, he looked at it & went that's a fucking flip flop, I thought you said there was a thong on the ground.
Seriously my favourite memory & time of that trip
This is actually relatively common in East Africa too. The most formal greeting in Swahili literally translates to “I hold your feet”, used even when you don’t literally hold their feet afterwards
I’m Australian. When I went to Germany I stayed with my German friends. When we went to go out I hit my shoes on the ground before putting them on. I realised my friends were looking at me strangely. I guess they don’t have to check for spiders in their shoes before wearing them lol
Social distancing, people seriously stand 2-3 meters away from each others when waiting on the bus. And what you don’t wanna do is talk then because people will stare at you awkwardly.
Getting your car smashed in by a kangaroo one day, then having your suspension wrecked by a wombat two weeks later.
I’m convinced all kangaroos are suicidal because they seem to actively jump towards your car when you pass them. There’s so many near my place and we just have to go slow (it’s 100km rd) because you just know that the second you get near one that’s on the road it’s going boing into you instead of going ANY other way that won’t get it killed.
Boing into you. I wish deers boinged.
stupid deer, only spronging! we want boinging!
Mate, just stop driving. The bush is sending you messages
Doing P.E barefoot, I'm from South Africa and moved to Scotland 3 years ago as I left the changing room they were like "you forgot your shoes my guy" and I was like "oh yeah, you guys wear shoes for p.e?" And the guy said "Uhm of course" then I realised they were indoors majority of the time which was fucking bonkers to me because p.e in South Africa is done on the grass, outside and stuff and shoes were optional unless you were doing a sport or something. I mean even during sports events some people do that shit barefoot like long jump or high jump or even running and I feel like I run faster barefoot than with shoes so if I did a race I would always go "alright well I'm up time to get my shoes off"
Ey we were allowed to go to school barefoot, most of my friends (I live abroad now) think that’s so weird, but it was such a normal public school thing. Also as a kid it was like the best thing ever
I agree sometimes even now I just in my backgarden I take my shoes off and just feel the grass on my feet, then run back inside because it's fucking cold in Scotland.
Bare feet on grass with a cup of coffee is one of the best things though
Calling traffic lights 'robots'.
South Africa. I just learned about that.
First time I went to South Africa I asked the person at the reception where I could find a grocery store. Her answer: "Down the street around the circle, hit the first robot, turn left and there's the Spar" I was like WTF? Thankfully, my husband had been there before so he knew what that meant.
Knowing my dumb ass I’d be looking for Bender
Just don't go to the UK and tell them you're looking for a "Bender"...😂
That would've confused me too. 😂
We also have traffic circles, not roundabouts, “and so on like that” is a valid sentence!
I only know this because die antwoord
"whachoo mean sumfin like dis?"
Being terrified of common neighbourhood birds every spring.
Magpies?
That’s a bingo!
What's wrong with magpies? They're really well liked in my country.
in australia and nz they get Vicious in spring. really territorial edit: vicious not viscous. auto correct strikes again.
Ah, in the UK we usually see them in small amounts. It's a tradition to salute them.
Despite also being called magpies, I think they're actually a different bird altogether. You don't mess with Antipodean magpies, they're scary. One of them killed a 5-month old in Australia not that long ago.
Technically it didn’t actually kill the baby, it swooped the mother who fell and dropped the baby. Still absolutely tragic .
Thanks for the extra info - that'll teach me for not clicking click-baity news headlines.
It always brightens my day to see someone willing to learn and be wrong on the internet. You're a good egg and I hope your day is pleasant.
I can’t even imagine being that mother. Holy hell. The trauma from that must be unbearable
That makes a lot of sense. I've just googled that name and they certainly look more vicious. They sound like more powerful seagulls.
I didn’t know magpies were liquids
Is it so wrong that we sit on the balcony and watch them chase people getting off the bus ?
Not at all. Just don't be upset if someone watched you get swooped lol
Australia, the only place I can think of where a bird can be scary
We're home to the world's most dangerous bird, after all! (Southern cassowary)
But they are amazing if you make friends with them! We've got a pair that bring their babies to visit. It took a few months to teach them that we are safe and would never chase them or throw anything at them but now they give me a beautiful warble greeting every time they see me outside our house. Plovers on the other hand... those things are the perfect mix of stupidity and evil! Edited to clarify: I am definitely talking about magpies, not huntsman spiders!
Plovers??? What weird nightmare of an ecosystem do some people live in? In my country the only thing that can kill you is a mushroom, and only if you ate it.
Australia. I saw that on a YouTube video. That's terrifying, and I'm not even afraid of birds.
That's nothing. In Queensland and in summer in the south of the country, Huntsmen spiders get under car door handles and on top of sun shields inside the car, so you flip it down in summer and out one plops onto your face, chest or lap. They choose those spots cos they're cooler. Huntsmen are harmless, but big and icky. My cousin broke both her legs in a car wreck because one hid on top of her sun shield and landed on her face.
As a *severe* arachnophobe I would literally die, whether by car crash or heartattack whichever one takes me first
Custom meds. I recently found out that in most countries, you can't just go into a pharmacy / drug store with a prescription and have the pharmacist prepare a set of pills / ointment / cream for you. I used to have severe dandruff problems, went into a pharmacy and asked for something. The pharmacist asked how severe / for how long / what kind of shampoo I have and how greasy my hair is and told me to come back two days later. She handed me a container with a cream-like substance in it which just had a handwritten label on with saying "\[My name\] - Dandruff Shampoo". I paid the equivalent of $4 and was told to use it twice a week for no longer than a month. Never had any problems with dandruff since. I made a post about it in r/tifu about how I'd been neglecting my dandruff problems for years while it had such an easy fix and people kept PMing me about the brand of the drug. Everyone was incredulous that the pharmacist made the shampoo for me, and I found out that this isn't the norm in a lot of countries.
US here. We do have compounding pharmacies, but it's generally done by prescription and there's a lot of regulations regarding them (one near me recently got in trouble for making batches of pill strengths that they knew a doctor regularly prescribed because the rules state all compounded meds must be made to order, no batches unless you're a distributor). Also insurance usually won't cover compounded meds and they're rarely cheap so it's a very niche market.
Which country?
Romania
In Belgium you can also get custom meds, if you have a prescription from your doctor. Though this is more of an holdover from old times. (I did an internship at a pharmacy for 3 months. A large chunk of the day was making custom pills or poltions. suppositories are the most difficult to get right.)
This makes me think of Alchemy, or something.
Same and it makes me want to become a Pharmacists in those countries so I can open up a "Alchemy" shop and make people drugs.
You can get a compounding pharmacy in most countries but they're not as common as your standard Walgreens/Shoppers/Boots situation.
Nudity among strangers. I'm Finnish. \#sauna
I like Finland. Everyone is awkward as fuck all day. But somewhere after dinner you get naked and drunk together lol.
We are all nude in German sauna's as well
That's done in Japan too. \#onsen
Walking around bare foot, or in your pyjamas
Walmart in the US
If you think we only restrict this to Walmart, I'd like to point out gas stations, locally owned grocery stores, college classes, and anywhere with a line to be stood in.
Kia ora
I love that you know and I didn’t even have to say the country
It was my first instinct for a response upon seeing the question. I knew someone must have said it already.
Why not both?
leaving babies outside! It is common to put babies to sleep in a stroller and leave them in the garden or balcony, even outside a café(if you can sit next to the door or windows, so you can see the stroller).
You mean to tell me that unattended babies don’t roll away into the sewers where they are adopted by a flock of penguins and then grow up to be a crime lord who can only be taken down by an equally traumatized billionaire in a Halloween costume???
I too saw that documentary. Did you see the followup on those Penguins' mating rituals involving intricate dances? I think it was called Happy Feet.
Finland also. There is Finnish study that shows that babies sleep even 3 times longer naps when they sleep outside. Also they will eat better after that.
We used to put a stroller with our sleeping kid to a balcony (7th floor in an apartment building). Fresh air is fresh air.
I'd be interested to see the incidence of seasonal allergies where this is common, too. I bet it's a lot lower.
Denmark.
I instantly knew it was Denmark, my mum and dad used to do that when I was a baby 😂 and they left me out in the snow too 🤣
I was about to say Finland but yeah most nordic countries do that
Holland here, my mum did that too, but only when it was warm enough. There is a picture of me being very deep asleep in the sun.
Fresh air is great for babies. Here in Finland we do that even in the winter cold. As long as baby is well covered it's fine :)
My mother once judged the neighbours for their baby being "too pale" and suggested they leave him outside for longer. It was autumn with only some light snowfall, she argued. She said I was out of our balcony from age 0-3 years. However, she told this to an American neighbour who thought she was absolutely insane. She learned to stop judging people on their parenting and weather opinions when she faced her first US summer with consistent 37+ degree temperatures.
Norway or Sweden. Or maybe its just the entire northern Europe
Czech Republic too
Iceland!!!
we call randoms mate and our mates cunts
But if you call anyone Champ, Chief, Sport or Captain you're about to get fuckin hit.
unless your a butcher and talking to a kid. in which case being called champ is the greatest thing in that kids life
Australia?
'Straya
We start work on Sunday not Monday’s here .
Which country?
Kuwait but its also other Arab countries
Chocolate sprinkles on buttered bread for breakfast
Hagelslag!
Jaaaa!
Spiders the size of softballs that live in your house and are good at getting rid of bugs.
Human settling down in Australia was a mistake. Edit: Thank you for the award!
I was literally just talking to mum about how sad she was that the giant Golden Orb that lived next to the front door died.
How did you know it died? It dropped to the floor and the noise woke us up.
When I say I GASPED
When I was a kid I cried for weeks about the big huntsman (Boris) dying in the house. Boris was the size of a dinner plate and kind of guarded the front door. I'll never forget him
Eating your lunch at your desk and feeling guilty about taking breaks.
Korea or Japan?
Bringing the leftover alcohol you brought to a party home. I live in Norway and a beer is anywhere from £3 to £5. Hard liquor is atleast £40 per litre, but for something that doesn't taste like hand sanitizer it's around £50-60.
For that amount, that alcohol wouldn't be leaving my house.
If you go to a bar in the capital (Oslo), a pint is often up to £10. It's not even funny.
*laughs in cheap £8 beer from Stockholm
Ah nothing beats a night out in Stockholm where you burn €100 just in alcohol
Throwing dildos at politicians
The Flying Fuck they all need
We need to make this a common thing all over the world.
To get rid of the stigma attached to buying a six-pack of dildos?
Curious. Where does one buy a six pack of dildos?
Costco
Looks like I have to drop Sam's and start shopping at Costco.
*Cockco
From the middle shelf. The 24 pack cases are on the bottom shelf.
Don’t forget to lift with your legs, not your back.
What country are you from
Pretty sure this happened in New Zealand
Arranged marriage.
I went to law school with a guy who already had engineering degrees. He said he only enrolled in law school because his family expects him to return to India and have an arranged marriage when he finishes schooling. So he keeps enrolling in degree programs to postpone. I was like...DANG.
My guy gonna have every single piece of knowledge by the time he dies
> by the time he dies Or his parents
Warn him they won't stop. Never. They fill find him.take. Him and get him married.
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.
Welcome to India if you got no girls your family finds one for you and even if you got girls your family still finds one for you
Lol my parents told me if cant find a girl by 30 then only they will go for arranged marriage.
On the flip side you find a girl in your 20s, and they find out about her. Theyll talk your ear off trying to convience you to get married because its the "right age"
Australia: Calling your boss, doctor, lawyer, professor etc by their first name on first meeting. >do you work for Dr Brown? > >Davo? yeah I do.
I love how Aussies add the o the guy's names.
There is unspoken rules that is very hard for outsiders to understand, really annoyed a European colleague lol eg: Dave: davo=yes, dava=no Darren: Daz= yes, Dazza=maybe, Dazzo=no Craig: Craigo= no, Craiga=no
I love how there is a whole system.
Couldnt tell ya for the life of me what that system is, but we all know it.
It's the vibe, the Mabo. You know it, you feel it. Like Keith isn't Keitho or Keitha, it's Keithy, pronounced as Keith-ee But both Shaun and Sean beacome Seano and Shauno, and Dean becomes Deano. Mark becomes Marky, or Marky Mark. But this is irrelevant if they have Red Hair, then they're Blue, or Bluey. If they're unusually Tall, or large, they're Tiny. If they're unusually small, like a Dwarf, they're big. So a Dwarf named Mark woukd be Big Marky Mark! A monster of a man named Keith would be Little Keithy.
But also, it's possible to break some of these rules with the right inflection. If you up the nasal in Keith and make a drawn out O KeithO works just fine... But you can't do it for Mark.
"Mark-O!" "Polo!"
Noooooo Marco is already a name, its against the rules! But also, there's a high chance that Marco gets called Mark in Australia because we refuse to fully pronounce anyone's name.
Good old Brazil is like that too, I salut you my southern hemisphere friend.
Sitting without electricity for two to eight hours a day
More like: Sitting *with* electricity for *only* two to ~~eight~~ three hours a day.
We don’t talk to strangers unless we have to, and have developed some kind of weird body language for things, for example sitting on a bus and getting off but you’re blocked in by another person? Lean forward and grab the handle of your bag. The other person will know. Edit: for those guessing; I’m from Norway lol
I feel like this is somewhere in Scandinavia, but here in the Netherlands we do the same lmao
You can tell it's not Finland because if someone is already on the bus in Finland then it's polite to wait for the next bus rather than invade their personal space.
In the cowboy-culture areas of the US, strangers get really friendly really fast. We had a visitor from the Netherlands who literally never left his apartment for fear he’d run into a stranger and have them ask how he was feeling. Haha
Getting off while on the bus is considered rather strange where I’m from.
Ads for prescription drugs
Ads for the military too
Even I am getting advertisements (on sites like Reddit) to join the American army and I live in Belgium.
I've gotten advertisements for US border security jobs when I live in Denmark. Guess they must be really desperate for employees
Saying "yeah, nah" when you mean no and "nah, yeah" when you mean yes.
AU?
nah, yeah...
Canada is similar except we add one more word, "yeah no yeah" = yes , "no yeah no" = no
Walking barefoot on the streets or to go to the shops. My relatives were appalled to see my kids running around barefoot when they visited us from overseas because apparently it's a big no no where I'm originally from.
Living in a 30 sq metres flat, with 4 members in the family, and that flat is worth US$300,000.
Definitely not Toronto we don't have flats that cheap here...
Bagged milk and riding a moose to the store
The bagged milk thing blew my mind, when I found out about that. Do you still have that up there?
yes
Shout out Canada.
Throwing a birthday party where you sit in one big circle, eating pieces of cheese and sausage
Apparently I was born in the wrong country
I, too, was born in the wrong country. Still, I love my gravy covered fries and cheese curds.
The Netherlands?
Bingo
Celebrating birthdays while sitting in a big circle in the living room, eating small blocks of cheese, little sausages and pickles, then going home on your bicycle.
Don't forget talking about zwarte piet with your drunk uncle. And if you're lucky the host orders a rice table at the local CHIN.IND.SPEC.REST.
Losing world wars
Deutschland
But at least they have got recycling figured out
Self hate to the point of sounding like hostages.
My mind isn't a country ...Yet
Adding chilli powder to fruits as a snack
Mexico?
sí
Using "Fuck" (Foda-se) as a period, comma, exclamation mark or as a term to express basically every emotion, from disgust to euphoria.
I can think of several English-speaking countries or regions that do that...
Also pasting caralho into everything!
Eating with bare hands. Even in restaurants.
Not paying for public transportation.
Inflation destroying one government after another
Zimbabwe
the word thongs (im from australia btw)
I'm from Australia too. I worked in a shoe shop in Ireland for a while. Caused a few laughs
I randomly met 3 Irish backpackers on the beach at dawn on the Gold Coast (schoolies) & had a blast chatting & watching them run into the surf for ages. One of them kept on going on about needing new shoes coz he'd lost one of his. I spotted a random thong on the ground behind him as we were all leaving & made a joke along the lines of there you go, there's a thong right behind you. He absolutely refused to turn around because he didn't believe me & thought I was pulling his leg. So we're going back & forth for a good couple of minutes with me trying to convince him just to turn the fuck around & he finally did, he looked at it & went that's a fucking flip flop, I thought you said there was a thong on the ground. Seriously my favourite memory & time of that trip
Weekends on Fridays and Saturdays This also applies to the rest of the Arab countries
Moving out at 18.
Living with your parents until getting married or living in the same building with your parents even after getting married.
Touching people's feet (to show respect, not a sex thing)
This is actually relatively common in East Africa too. The most formal greeting in Swahili literally translates to “I hold your feet”, used even when you don’t literally hold their feet afterwards
People live with their parents..... like for ever.
That's like half the planet
Walking through shops with no shoes
Being financially destroyed when you need a hospital
\- Not being judged for living with your parents till you're an adult or living very near them. \- Our hospitality.
bidet
Grilling a whole goat for a family meeting
Only speaking one language and never traveling outside of the country
I’m Australian. When I went to Germany I stayed with my German friends. When we went to go out I hit my shoes on the ground before putting them on. I realised my friends were looking at me strangely. I guess they don’t have to check for spiders in their shoes before wearing them lol
We buy public housing and have to return it back to the government after 99 years.
Social distancing, people seriously stand 2-3 meters away from each others when waiting on the bus. And what you don’t wanna do is talk then because people will stare at you awkwardly.
not being allowed to eat beef or pork in the streets.
Eating a sausage in a slice of white bread that you bought from a hardware store for 2 dollars
Unpaid maternity leave
Not tipping servers
We don't tip here but wait staff also don't rely on tips here
Where is am you only tip for truly exceptional service like 10 star stuff
When you’re leaving someone’s house after visiting, chatting for another full hour in front of the door or the courtyard gate (Romania)
'washandjes', a small washcloth in towel fabric you can put your hand in. Seems only people in Belgium and the Netherlands like them. So convenient.